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Russell Smith shows us how to easily create custom security policies for Windows Server using the Security Configuration Wizard to suit your organization’s business needs.

Learn how to easily find local user accounts using PowerShell with this step-by-step tutorial by Jeff Hicks.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy Microsoft Anti-Malware to Azure virtual machines at scale with scanning exceptions and schedules using PowerShell.

Because your Apple Watch isn’t arriving until June anyway, this week’s other news includes Microsoft’s mobile payments mulligan, the secret plan to advertise Windows 10 to Windows 7/8.1 users, PC sales fell again in the first quarter, Apple Watch debuts, the EU is serious about Google, and Lynda.com gets a big payday. Microsoft to try,…

Microsoft currently offers both on-premises Windows Server versions and Azure in the cloud. But with the coming generation of Nano Server capabilities in Windows Server vNext, the differences between these product lines are about to blur even further. You can learn more about Nano Server in Aidan Finn’s article, Microsoft Announces Nano Server. And be…

Microsoft announces new Hyper-V containers for better application virtualization in the next version of Windows Server, referred to as Windows Server vNext.

Skype for Business? What is this product that Microsoft has just launched? Lync has been rapidly gaining market share on the Unified Communications space, so why launch Skype for Business, you ask? What will happen to Lync? Join us as we chat with Pat Richard (@patrichard), Microsoft MVP, about Skype for Business and what it…

Microsoft has officially unveiled Windows Nano Server, but what does the news mean for system administrators? Russell Smith provides his thoughts in his latest commentary.

Microsoft announces Nano Server, a server OS optimized for cloud infrastructure and born-in-the-cloud applications.

In this PowerShell Problem Solver article, learn how to create a grouped HTML report with PowerShell.

Google can’t seem to catch a break these days: the Internet search giant faces several antitrust investigations in Europe, and recent revelations that the US Federal Trade Commission should have pursued an antitrust case against the firm in this country have only damaged the reputations of both entities. But now Google is being accused, again,…

Learn how to use the VM Agent to repair Remote Desktop connection settings in an Azure VM running Windows Server